Temperaments- Britten serenade

[RIrvingbas@aol.com]

 In a message dated 1/30/98 5:21:22 PM, you wrote:
 
 
 > Dennis Brain plays some amazing french horn solos wherin some notes sound
 incredibly out of tune. There is one note that could easily be 50 cents
 flat.<
 
 For what ever it’s worth, Britten instructs the horn soloist to play the “out
 of tune” notes as quarter tones, actually bending the pitch into that blue
 note, much as a jazz player would. He notates that bend into the score. 
 
 Ray Irving